Arms and men
published in Business Day September 27, 2007
President Thabo Mbeki and the men around him have repeatedly blocked an independent investigation into the arms deal scandal and, in particular, his role as chair of the cabinet’s arms deal subcommittee.
This is illustrated by Mbeki’s dismissal of Judge Willem Heath, his destruction of constitutional checks and balances and the insertion of a critical whitewashing paragraph in the joint investigating team report.